Denmark: the Ministry of Labor publishes a guide to reduce the gender pay gap

Via the dissemination of a guide on the gender divide of the labor market, the Minister of Labor wants to encourage businesses commit to reduce the gender pay gap which places Denmark last among Scandinavian countries. (Ref. 080962)
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Convinced that the fight against the gender pay gap must be carried out at work, Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen recently published a guide on the gender division of labor, which will be followed by a series of seminars on inequality between men and women. On the other hand, the government has just created a wage commission (see our dispatch No. 080591) in charge of analyzing the effect of this inequality on the public sector.

Gender division of labor. Danish men earn between 17-21% more than D

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